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What's fun with sloppy russian cursive as a non-native is that if you know the word, your brain can parse it, but with new words it's like, UUUUuumumUummuuUmuumu is that л, т, ц, ш, щ, п, и, т?? Who did this????? Cyrillic printed is really easy to learn, but cursive is double plus confusing because there's poo poo like writing the т as m and the м as a fancier m. д (d) becomes g in cursive. It's too much! Edgar Allen Ho fucked around with this message at 17:32 on Mar 18, 2022 |
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Mar 18, 2022 17:26
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:What's fun with sloppy russian cursive as a non-native is that if you know the word, your brain can parse it, but with new words it's like, UUUUuumumUummuuUmuumu is that л, т, ц, ш, щ, п, и, т?? Who did this????? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqaCEPwWGtc&t=5s
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Mar 18, 2022 19:40
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euphronius posted:I don’t think anyone would have figured out hieroglyphs without the stone I'm not sure that is necessarily true. Having a bilingual inscription helped, but it didn't solve the problem on its own. There was a lag period of about 20 years between the Rosetta Stone being brought back to England and major progress being made in decipherment. They figured out how to match up the names between the two Egyptian inscriptions and the Greek pretty fast, but after that, it took a long time for more progress to be made. A lot of the work ultimately had to be done with the hieroglyphs themselves. Several of the major breakthroughs that ultimately enabled decipherment also didn't come from the Rosetta Stone. One of the big ones was figuring out that Coptic was a descendent of the Ancient Egyptian language, and that could have been done without the Rosetta Stone existing.
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Mar 18, 2022 22:20
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-WO73Dh7rY This autoplayed after and 1648 is well within the history of the Roman Empire so I'm dropping it
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Mar 19, 2022 00:10
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Arglebargle III posted:
I used to be an adventurer like you, then I took an arrow in the knee.
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Mar 20, 2022 03:32
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Deteriorata posted:I used to be an adventurer like you, then I took an arrow in the knee. Man that line sucked when it was everywhere, remember the nod to it in the opening of bioshock infinite
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Mar 20, 2022 03:36
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Tulip posted:Out of total curiosity, is there any resource for learning cuneiform other than either 1) going to grad school or 2) the hard way of reading tons of translated texts from the cuneiform database? I guess this is for Sumerian specifically, but has resources useful for other languages using cuneiform too. https://isaw.nyu.edu/library/blog/getting-started-with-sumerian
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Mar 20, 2022 07:54
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Arglebargle III posted:
Oooh that's gotta hoit!
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Arglebargle III posted:
Welp, this sunday I will have phantom knee pain
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Mar 20, 2022 11:51
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Don't think that is the knee. Tibia maybe?
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Mar 20, 2022 13:08
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Lead out in cuffs posted:I guess this is for Sumerian specifically, but has resources useful for other languages using cuneiform too. quote:The traditional route to learning Sumerian is to learn Akkadian first.
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Lead out in cuffs posted:I guess this is for Sumerian specifically, but has resources useful for other languages using cuneiform too. thank you! lol
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For Akkadian, you can find a good textbook available online for free here: https://www.academia.edu/234695/2011_A_Grammar_of_Akkadian_3rd_edition_. Here is the corresponding answer key for that book as well: https://www.academia.edu/234697/2013_Key_to_A_Grammar_of_Akkadian_3rd_edition_. This is probably a good place to start, since this book has a lot of exercises you can do as you go. Alternatively, if you want to jump into Sumerian, you could try using this book: https://www.amazon.com/Learn-Read-Ancient-Sumerian-Introduction/dp/1734358602, which has the advantage of being designed for self-study outside an academic environment.
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Speaking of Sumerian. Thought this was a good thread: https://twitter.com/LinManuelRwanda/status/1505646738627088389
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Mar 21, 2022 18:17
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Sumerian men wore skirts instead of pants and drank their beer from a long tube. I dont think that joke is that hard to figure out...
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Mar 21, 2022 19:10
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Not sure if it's beyond the scope of this thread, but whoa. Neanderthal wooden tools. https://twitter.com/johnhawks/status/1505985358034612225
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Yadoppsi posted:Sumerian men wore skirts instead of pants and drank their beer from a long tube. I dont think that joke is that hard to figure out... north americans had a weapon called the BAR, i don't think "a man walks into a bar. he says "ouch"!" is that hard to figure out...
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^^Why so aggro? That joke works in English because of the homonyms bar and bar. If you know enough Sumerian to explain how its not a dick-sucking joke please explain. I'd love to know. E)I see, its a pun on not seeing because it's dark/the dog should just open his eyes. Yadoppsi fucked around with this message at 00:55 on Mar 23, 2022 |
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Mar 23, 2022 00:50
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Yadoppsi posted:^^Why so aggro? That joke works in English because of the homonyms bar and bar. If you know enough Sumerian to explain how its not a dick-sucking joke please explain. I'd love to know. i am challenging an assumption you are making with a demonstration - you can combine perfectly accurate facts about a culture you missing context around (how they dressed/a name of a weapon) and make an educated guess based on actual facts that even could have an argument around (people like sex jokes/weapons hurt) and wind up completely wrong. if you read the full longform tweet that's exactly what this person is suggesting - another thing people really like and have always really liked are puns and wordplay, and they are as or more common than dick jokes. it would not take a removal of many pieces of context to make "a man walks into a bar" equally nonsensical to a non-english speaker.
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Is Kopis at all related to Khopesh or is it just coincidence?
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Azza Bamboo posted:Is Kopis at all related to Khopesh or is it just coincidence? might be
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spoon daddy posted:Speaking of Sumerian. Thought this was a good thread: https://twitter.com/LinManuelRwanda/status/1505646738627088389 Yadoppsi posted:Sumerian men wore skirts instead of pants and drank their beer from a long tube. I dont think that joke is that hard to figure out... So one of the guests is about to get sucked off by a dog who has the guy's skirt over it's eyes and thinks he's on the beer tube. Not bad.
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Mar 25, 2022 11:21
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someone translated it as “ I can’t see a thing, I should Crack one open” and that’s chuckleworthy
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I do love ancient humour, especially the trash and the incomprehensible in-jokes. People are and have been the same all this time and everywhere in the world.
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...so Namluh gets sucked off by the dog, and starts to yell hysterically. He lifts his skirt, but lets out a sigh of relief. "By Enki, for a second I thought it's your mother again. She's been going around the bars on all fours again lately."
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There's a book of ancient Greek jokes out there, many of which still hold up because they're either making fun of Shelbyville and its stupid inhabitants or they're boomer jokes about their horrible wives.
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Mar 25, 2022 15:22
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πάρε τη γυναίκα μου. σας παρακαλούμε
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Iirc there's some preserved graffiti in Pompeii that is essentially "I hosed your mum". Timeless.
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Mar 25, 2022 22:24
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etched into a railing at the hagia sophia is a thousand year old graffito in Norse runes saying the equivalent of "Halfdan was here"
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I think there's at least two separate runic inscriptions in the Hagia Sofia both are just "X wrote this" or "Y wuz here"
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The Temple of Dendur is displayed at the Metropolitan Museum in NYC, and one of the features of the otherwise stunning Roman-era Egyptian temple is that it has graffiti from a wide variety of time periods etched into it. There's Egyptian demotic graffiti from laborers just after the temple was founded in 10 BCE, there's Greek coptic graffiti from when it was briefly converted to a Christian church, and there's British english graffiti when it was discovered by European adventurers in the 19th century. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/547802
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I wonder if there's a PhD out there whose speciality is comparative historical cock-and-balls.
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PhD in PHDs
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Elissimpark posted:I wonder if there's a PhD out there whose speciality is comparative historical cock-and-balls. I’m sure of it.
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Egypt had (has?) otters? Bronze Otter Statue, Late Period or Ptolemaic Period Egypt (664–30 B.C.) 
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AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:Egypt had (has?) otters? Aww  This is the current range of the Eurasian otter.  There are other otters too, but this one would presumably overlap Ptolemaics back then.
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can someone remind me where this quote i remember comes from, i think it was a roman historian aristocrat bragging about the power of the empire. it's something like (might be prefaced with "back in the good old days"?) "a roman citizen could carry a pot of gold on their heads and walk from one end of the empire to the next without being hassled". i don't think it was literal but it was a way of them saying security was/used to be much better and roman prestige would keep all the other imperial subjects subjugated and cowed. i probably heard it on History of Rome.
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These guys range as far north as Sudan: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_clawless_otter Given that they're still found in the Nile (just not as far north as the delta), I'd wonder if they might be a better candidate. It seems to be a bit of a mystery, though, since Egypt does not have otters today.
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